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Show before being submitted to the Department. No further purchases of lands for these Indians have been made. In all, the following land^ have been purchased: Sec. 25, T. 47 S., R. 32 E.; sec. 32, T. 47 S., R. 33 E.; secs. 23,24,25, 26,35, and 36, T. 48 S., R. 32 E.; secs. 12,18, and 24, T. 48 S., R. 33 E.; a,nd secs. 7,16, and 34, T. 43 S., R. 34 E.-fonrteen sections. My last report referred to the fact that many of the Seminoles had homes upon lands which had been patented to the State of Florida as swamp lands, and that this office, in. its report of May 26, 1897, had made the following recommendation: Where Indians lare known to. be located npon specified traots, such tracts should be oxempted from patent; that no person or Corporation shall have color of right to deprive the Indinus of their ancient possessions. * * I dso have the honor to reoommend that there he inserted in the patent to be issued to the State a olsuse expressly reserving the rights of the Indians to the occupancy of lands possessed and improved by them at the date of the patent, that purchasers of l ~ q dma ay have notice of the rights of Indian occupants. From '<Land Decisions," Vol. 26, p. 117, it is learned that ofice report of May 26, 1897, was submitted to the Assistrt~ltA ttorney-General for the Interior Department, May 28,1897, who, on January 31,1893, ren-dered an opinion, of which the syllabus reads as follows: If it is made to appear that lands have been erroneously inolnded in a oertified swamp land list, and the patent has not issued thereon, the trotion of a preceding Secretary of the Interlor in approving such list may be corrected by his SUCoe88or. The etatus of the Seminole Indians, as oooupants of public lands in the Stste of Florida, is too indefinite in character to receive rsaagnition in patents issued under the swamp grant. Lands occupied and cultivated by said Indians can not, hovever, be held aa of the charaoter contemplated by said grant, and if, on due investigation, lauds so occupied and improved appear to have been certified to the State under said grant, the certi-fication thereof should be revoked. June 8,1898, the Commissioner of the General Land Office trans-mitted, to this office the report of Inspector A. J. Duncan, dated March 19, 1893, on the subject of lands for the Seminole Indians of Florida, in which be recommended : First. That the following public lsnds be reser~cdfo r the use of the Seminole Indians, to be held in trust for them during their occupsnoy. (1) A11 the pubha lands, hammocks and islsuds and the legal sobdivieionsof themarsh lrunds of whioh they constitute apart, whichwhen anrveyedwouldapproximately beiuT. 45,46,47,50, 51,52, and 53 S., R. 34 E., and in T. 45,46,47,48,49,50,51, and 52, S. R. 35 E. (2) What is known aa Pine Inland, with the adjacent hammocks and the marshland8 of thelegal subdivisions of which they constitute s, part, approximately situated as follows: Secs. 15,16,21,22,27, and28,T. 50S., R.41E. (3) A11 of whatie knownssLongKey, with the adjacent islands and marsh lands of the legal subdivisions of which they constitute a part, approximately sitnated ss follows: Seos. 1 and 12, T. 51 S., R. 40 E., and Secs. 7, 8, and 9, T. 51 S., R. 41 E. (4) All of what is known as Mmmi Jim8 Island, with all the edjaoent hammocks and marsh lands of the legel subdivi-sions of whioh they constitute s, part, approximately situated as follows: NE. t sea. 35 and the NIV. t see. 36, T. 53 S., R. 40 E. (6) Allthe publio lands and marshlands of the legal subdivisions of which they constitnte a part, approximatelysitnated as |